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Re: disable xdm



on Mon, Apr 01, 2002, Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com) wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 08:01:37PM +0100, Peter Whysall wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 19:44, Phil wrote:
> > > how can I disable xdm and boot into terminal mode.  I prefer to use startx.
> > 
> > The preferred method for this is to set initdefault to 3.
> > 
> > Look in /etc/inittab for this line: 
> > 
> > id:5:initdefault:
> > 
> > Change the 5 to a 3.
> 
> That's redhat.  This is debian.

;-)

Under Debian, runlevels do what _you_ want them to.  Modify runlevels to
suite with update-rc.d, a rough analog to RH's "analog".

Peace.

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